Tiger in the Snow: The Life and Adventures of A.F. Mummery
by Unsworth, Walter
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Very Good
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Victor Gollancz LTD, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good. 11 B&W plates, 5 maps & diagrams and text describing the life of the "father of mountaineering" who set alpine climbing on its modern course. Albert Frederick Mummery (10 September 1855, Dover, Kent, England â 24 August 1895, Nanga Parbat), was an English mountaineer and author. Although most notable for his many and varied first ascents put up in the Alps, Mummery, along with J. Norman Collie, Geoffrey Hastings, and two Gurkhas are also the first men in recorded history to have attempted to summit one of the Himalayan eight-thousanders.Their innovative, light-weight endeavour upon Nanga Parbat in 1895 proved ill-fated; Mummery and both Gurkhas died in an avalanche whilst reconnoitering the mountain's Rakhiot Face. The first man to summit on Nanga Parbat, the legendary Austrian mountaineer Hermann Buhl, described Mummery as "one of the greatest mountaineers of all time
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010030414
- Title
- Tiger in the Snow: The Life and Adventures of A.F. Mummery
- Author
- Unsworth, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz LTD
- Date Published
- 1967
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- mountaineering
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